linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] torture: Correctly fetch CPUs for kvm-build.sh with all native language

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Date:   Mon, 5 Apr 2021 16:23:09 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] torture: Correctly fetch CPUs for kvm-build.sh with all
 native language

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> +# This script knows only English.
> +LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG

This, too, will only work if en_US.UTF-8 is installed . Check with "locale 
-a" if it is. Also, Perl will complain loudly if the language is not 
installed (try: "LANG=en_US.UTF-9 perl"), a nice way to test if LANG works 
as expected.

So, wouldn't LANG=C be a more conservative fallback here?

</bikeshed>

Christian.
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